QT: Against My Will
Chapter 298

298 5.42 – Giant Jelly – The Sleepless Elite’s Wife

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Edited by Psycho S.

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Li Jie rolled his eyes as he bluntly told her, “You’re avoiding my question.”

Bing Shi grinned and replied to his fact with silence. How observant of the man.

At Bing Shi’s silence, Li Jie sighed. Li Jie abruptly realized how little he knew about Silika and, despite how much she talked to him, she was very secretive. Giving in to her desire to not talk about how she met Lu Kai, Li Jie decided to be grateful, “Thank you for giving him my contact.”

“Do you know what I noticed?” Bing Shi asked, thinking about Xue Bi’s lifestyle, “Having no friends is fine too.”

“...” And here, he was trying to be grateful, “You stopped stalking me.”

“Yeah, well, I stopped stalking you once I knew your taste in women...” Li Jie winced again at Bing Shi’s bluntness. Okay, that hurt. She poked further at Li Jie’s obviously wounded heart, “Taken women? Really? That was a surprise.”

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Bing Shi liked his music; it was a pity he couldn’t focus whole-heartedly on his music because of the current events.

Li Jie groaned loudly. When he fell for them, he didn’t know they were taken, okay?! He loudly protested to Silika, “Count my poor love life on my bad luck!”

Bing Shi commented randomly to Li Jie, “I don’t know why you’re rushing into a relationship.”

Li Jie froze. Hang on...

Bing Shi tacked on to that sentence, “It’s not worth rushing into love, you know?”

Li Jie went silent as he thoughtfully stared at his phone. Bing Shi didn’t mind Li Jie’s silence; she was busy blinking innocently at the sulking man who lurked in the corner of her room.

“Sorry, I’ve just spotted a giant jelly! I have to go. If you ever replace my corpse, just put a stone on my grave! Bye-bye!” Bing Shi hung up as the ‘giant jelly’ gracefully approached her and wrapped his tentacles around her in a deadly hug.

“...” The more Li Jie couldn’t replace out, the more question marks popped up in his mind. Most of these questions were about Silika and Lu Kai’s relationship.

Was Silika so secretive because she had to protect Lu Kai’s identity, or was she naturally so secretive to protect her own identity? No, it didn’t look like they needed any protection. Maybe Silika wanted Lu Kai to focus solely on his experiments? (Bingo, Lu Kai had his own mission to complete too.)

That didn’t seem too far-fetched. Many accomplished scientists disappeared mysteriously for reasons that were unknown to anyone but themselves. See this Lu Kai guy for example, who had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with various countries to not to disclose a single thing about Binfinity’s experiments without their consent.

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Su Luqin had been injured by Quin Yu; despite her broken leg and traumatised mind, Quin Yu was of the opinion that she was let off too lightly.

“You’re lucky, you wrench,” Quin Yu sneered before Su Luqin’s world erupted into a sea of red and pain.

Because of her broken leg, Su Luqin could no longer chase after her acting career. Not even a day after she’d been signed into the hospital to treat her broken leg, the public had somehow gotten hold of all her dirty schemes. This led to the doctors and nurses treating her harshly. They were familiar with Su Min so, not only did they now had a low opinion of Mo Luwei, but they also thought horribly about Su Luqin.

Mo Luwei tried to clear up Su Luqin’s name, but it wasn’t easy to go against the combination of Quin Yu, Li Jie and Silika Lin’s influence and power at once.

Su Luqin had ended up going to court because of her dirty schemes. She was declared guilty. She ended up in prison to her despair. Mo Luwei was shocked; in the span of only a few days, their marriage had been quashed before it could even come to fruition.

Silika Lin, the bystander, got tangled up in Su Luqin’s wrath by obtaining her female lead’s role.

If one thought that Mo Luwei would have returned everything to Bing Shi, then you’d think wrongly. This man wouldn’t admit his faults that easily. He wanted her to depend on him. He wanted to have her under his control. Before the public eye, she was still a homeless woman.

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“Miss Lin, I don’t want anyone to think that you obtained this role with underhanded means. My reputation is at risk.” The head director, who became friends with Aoi Hong, called for an audition.

He would rather lose all the sponsorship than have a bad actor in his movie. Everyone important to the movie’s creation was present, “So, Miss Lin, could you tell us what is the most special thing about you, compared to anyone else in this country?”

“Um... the most special thing about me?” Bing Shi looked at the group of people then at her palm, raising it up, she waved at the camera then Li Jie, “That has to be... my fingerprints. They are extraordinary. You’ll have a hard time replaceing someone who has the same as mine.”

Li Jie, together with some others covered their mouths, containing their laughter. This humble girl just admitted that she was super special but also not, just like everyone else in this world.

“...” The director already knew that he wasn’t going to get along with this newbie, “Miss Lin, you are going to perform a scene from the movie ‘The Last Spark’.” He had to be as specific as possible, or this Silika Lin would replace a loophole in the contract to act out sleeping, “It’ll be the crying scene after Ami lost her parents.”

“Can I use my tear stick?” Bing Shi took out a small lipstick with menthol in it out of her jean’s pocket. Of course, she had no idea what the director was talking about. Mo Luwei pushed this to her in a rush, giving her no time to prepare. She crammed the script Li Jie gave her at the last second. Crying over her parents’ death sounded difficult. It wasn’t her scene but Aoi Hong’s. Not to leak anything out, Li Jie only told her that despite being the female lead, her role wasn’t challenging and impactful like Aoi Hong’s role.

To earn money, one had to follow the trend or come up with a new one. The first one was an easier choice. This director wanted to create a new trend, where the ‘good’ couldn’t stay that way forever. In doing so, he also wanted to make the villains the victims by having more depth to their characters. This would make them seem like ‘good’ guys.

“Miss Lin,” the director reminded himself, “Some of the greatest scenes in history are largely thanks to an actor’s ability to conjure real tears. Don’t you want to be among the greatest?”

“If crying is what it takes to be the greatest, then no,” Bing Shi bluntly said. She was someone who couldn’t cry comfortably with so many people around. She elaborated on her sentence when it looked like the director would explode, “If I can avoid looking like a crying mess, I’ll be fine with being passable for a movie I auditioned for.”

Was the Director trying to trap her and turn her into a laughing stock? She wasn’t here to audition for Aoi Hong’s role. That was too difficult for her currently. She was here to audition for Su Luqin’s role. Perhaps she was overthinking. After all, she was used to so many scheming people aiming at her. The director had to be doing just what he said, keeping his reputation intact by not making it too easy for her.

“We’re looking forward to working with you in the future.” The director gave up. Well, despite her not turning into a crying mess, he would still remember her. She left that strong of an impact on him because of her straightforwardness.

Bing Shi jumped into the air in celebration. Wow, that was easy peasy! Yay! Before she left the room, she thanked the people present by giving a refined bow.

The present people were a little amused. They had witnessed her jumping for joy and then, later, performed a graceful bow. What wasn’t funny about watching someone change their attitudes so quickly?

When Bing Shi received the contract the next day, she signed it right away after reading the content. She pulled a peace sign at her vlog camera and then she informed her fans about the good news as a pre-emptive measure to prevent Mo Luwei from blackmailing her again.

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